ONCOassist Information

ONCOassist is a revolutionary new smart phone application for Oncology professionals. ONCOassist’s main value proposition is its suite of Decision Support tools. These tools put prognostic statistics into the hand of Oncology professionals at point of care. This will be used by them when they have to make a decision as to whether or not they should prescribe chemotherapy to patients. ONCOassist offers users three major advantages over traditional decision making methods: 1)ONCOassist gives users factual data which they can use to support their decisions. This enables them to make a more informed decision1. 2)ONCOassist is available in both smart phone app format and on the ODSS website; it can therefore be used anywhere in the hospital and without internet connection. 3)ONCOassist allows the patient become a partner in the decision making process, by giving the users easy to read statistics which can be explained to the patient, thus making them a well informed partner in the decision making process